Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts

Pom Pom Party

Friday, March 12, 2010

I’m back!!! Sorry for the little break in posts for the past week and a half. I was suffering from a little blog-burn-out due to some disappointing news about my application to blog on a “real” wedding blog. Needless to say, application denied, but no worries, I’m feeling much better and am really excited that I have a lot of planning progress to share.

This week, I invited all of my bridesmaids to come over to help with the pomander craft project. (I lured them with the promise of pizza, but what can you do?) As you may remember, my first attempt to make this tissue paper delight took me 4 hours for one puff! Even after two weekends of being snowed in, I still only had 7 of them completed. I figured, 12 hands are better than 2, so I called on my girls and they came to my rescue.

It was really nice to catch up with everyone since our schedules never allow the recommended weekly serving of girl time (kind of like vegetables). This was a good project because even though we were busy, we could still chit chat and catch up on all things girlie while we worked. All my girls and my Mom came over after work and we measured, cut, folded, twisted, fluffed and stuck until we made a whopping 5 pomanders in about 3 hours!

I was so busy working that I didn’t remember to take any pictures, but thank goodness for Jessica, Evan’s sister and my bridesmaid, who came all the way from Michigan and also took the only two photos at the pom pom party. Great job, Jess!

I think for the most part everyone had a good time working as my tissue paper slaves. I still have 8 more of these babies to make to reach my goal of 20 pomanders, but I think I can handle that rather than subject these girls to another night of orange tissue trauma. I have much bigger plans for my last few months of can-you-help-me-I’m-the-bride-power. They will be wishing for pom poms….mua ha ha ha.

**Just kidding my lovely bridesmaids, I don’t really have more projects for you (yet) I love you all very much. You are the best!

Paper Flowers

Thursday, January 14, 2010

I am in love with my new paper project. I found this idea in the most recent issue of Martha Stewart Weddings. They are flowers made from decorative paper and floral wire. I plan to use these flowers to decorate various tables, like the favor table and gift table at the reception. I still need to find some white flower vases to use for these mini-arrangements. They are a lot of fun to make. I might just make some to decorate the apartment. Here’s what you do:

1) Cut out 5 heart shapes (recommended to use a craft heart punch) and cut out 2, ½ inch circles
2) Roll each heart around a pencil to curl the paper
3) Lock the five hearts together in the valley of the hearts
4) Glue the circle cut out to the back of the hearts to seal them together
5) Wrap floral wire with white floral tape and bend into curly shape
6) Poke floral wire through the second circle cut out and glue to the back of the paper flower

Pomanders

Sunday, January 3, 2010

During some holiday time off, I have finally started some DIY wedding projects. A popular wedding craft that I will be tackling are pomanders. On the wedding blog circuit, you can find them in a variety of styles:

real flowers
silk flowers
fabric

tissue paper
I decided to go with the tissue paper. I made my first two pomanders a few weeks ago and started work on another one over the winter break. I used the steps found on this tutorial. The first pomander took about 4 hours to complete, from start to finish. That is a long time! I hope to get through the other ones on a more reasonable schedule since I want to make at least 20 of them. I might have to enlist the help of my bridesmaids to get through these babies. More projects to come soon…